While I'm certainly looking forward to a real Mac-native version of
OpenOffice -- and Sun's increased involvement certainly is good news
-- I'm wondering if the X11 version for Mac will be abandoned once
the Aqua version is complete?
I ask because the X11 version actually provides some advantages for
some Mac users -- specifically those who work with complex Asian
scripts such as Devanagari and Tibetan (this may be true of others as
well) for which the Macintosh and Windows/Linux implementations are
different enough that cross-platform sharing of Unicode-based
documents is impossible.
Since OpenOffice in X11 uses Linux/Windows-style OpenType fonts, it's
possible to create documents in that environment that can be shared
with Linux/Windows users -- where documents created in regular Mac OS
X apps (such as Pages, or NeoOffice, or the forthcoming Aqua
OpenOffice), which must use Apple AAT-compatible fonts, cannot be so
shared.
Thus, until real cross-platform implementations appear for such
scripts (which doesn't look like anytime soon, unfortunately),
OpenOffice in X11 can be a real help for such users, so I wonder if
it will continue to be updated along with the other versions. I'm
guessing it's not much different from the Linux version?
Andrew Main
Santa Fe, N.M., U.S.A.
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